Conservative Party of Spain

The Conservative Party was a liberal-conservative political party in Spain which existed from 1876 to 1931. The party was founded by Antonio Canovas del Castillo, and it brought together supporters of Queen Isabella II of Spain and former members of the Liberal Union and Moderate Party. The party sought to prevent socialism, anarchism, or republicanism from gaining power and ending the monarchy once again, and Canovas del Castillo led the party until his assassination by an anarchist in 1897. From the start of Miguel Primo de Rivera's dictatorship in 1923 until 1930, the party and its leaders were removed from political life, but they came to form a part of the last government of the monarchy in 1930. The results of the April 1931 election led to the demise of the Conservative Party, and it disappeared shortly after the rise of the Second Spanish Republic.